The Southwest Charter School board will meet in Special Executive Session pursuant to ORS 192.660 Section 2(i) to review and evaluate the employment‐related performance of the chief executive...Read More »

The 4th and 5th graders of Southwest Charter School have worked hard to create a unique guide to downtown Portland, dubbed the Downtown Portland Geology Quest. This self-guided tour of fourteen downtown Portland buildings is intended to teach curious folks of all ages about the kinds of rock our city’s...Read More »

A group of 7th and 8th graders and Fieldwork Coordinator, Sarah Anderson, are interviewed by Jim Ferretti. Students talk about their current Project Citizen project, the unique process they go through in the classroom, and the overall success of the program in our school.

In Spring 2015, Know Your City partnered with SW Charter School to offer a comics workshop that supported their term-long study of the history of civil rights movement and local African American history. During the course of several weeks teachers Lisa Colombo and Karinsa Kelly led the students in discussions and...Read More »

The 7th grade students in Sarah Anderson’s class are participating in a class room assignment called Project Citizen where students work together to identify a public policy issue in their community and develop an action plan for local government...Read More »

Our 8th Graders Finished Their Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Civil War Quest

To check it out in person, go to 9002 SW Boones Ferry Rd, Portland, OR 97219 [map], just west if Riverside Cemetery in Southwest Portland. Park in the small dirt parking lot in Greenwood Hill Cemetery, off...Read More »

As part of Southwest Charter School’s School Internship Program, two 8th grade students came to learn from and help the Johnson Creek Watershed Council (JCWC) weekly over the course of eight weeks. JCWC wanted to learn what students their age...Read More »

Students from School in Portland’s South Waterfront Say Raise Poop Scoop Fines (The Oregonian, June 2011)

Southwest Charter middle-schoolers launched a research and policy project that resulted in a first-place finish last month at the state competition for Project Citizen, a program of the Center for Civic...Read More »

Using the Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement as a launching point, students of Southwest Charter School produced a series of streaming audio reports through the school year, learning and sharing the technical and artistic skills needed for audio program development and production.